PRAYER 280

From I PRAY ANYWAY Devotions for the Ambivalent


280

Sometimes I think of
So many people praying
For different things
Different reasons
Different beliefs
And yet
All that yearning
All that gratitude
Circling around
And no tipping point
For peace
Yet


This was written in a kind of despair after racism reared its head in yet another permutation of fear and ill educated power and after the video beheadings of
very innocent people treated like poker chits of leverage.

I pray anyway, sometimes in hopelessness